Jenkins: Is Obama Beating Himself?

With "you didn't build that" going viral, the president's campaign is reportedly looking for a positive message. But what message?

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Updated July 31, 2012 7:12 pm ET

For some reason President Obama has us thinking of Marissa Mayer, Bill Ackman and Mark Zuckerberg.

"You didn't build that," Mr. Obama explained to the nation's entrepreneurs, and has been explaining ever since. He only meant to say we need government as well as private initiative, and who could disagree? This argument is anodyne, dispositive of nothing that is in dispute.